MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Masterworks is an annual presentation of thesis research by Master's students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. It is open to the public; students, undergraduate and graduate, are particularly welcome.

Students who are nearing the end of their thesis research and who wish to make a presentation submit an abstract to Masterworks and those who are selected present a 15-minute talk on their research. Prizes are awarded for the best presentations.

The talks are scheduled in 12 1-hour sessions of 3 talks each; 6 sessions occur simultaneously. A final program is available giving the times and locations of the presentations. Refreshments are served.

PARTICIPANTS AND TITLES

(Alphabetical by participant)

Spectral Envelope Estimation for Transient Event Detection
Craig B. Abler

A Highly Integrated Adiabatic Charge Recovery Digital to Analog Converter
M. Josie Ammer

Robust Detection of Patterns Embedded in Cluttered Observations
Louay Bazzi

VLSI Datapath Choices: Cell-Based Versus Full-Custom
Andrew L. P. Chang

Physics of high-frequency operation in Silicon MOSFETs
Richard Chang

Linearity of Power AlGaAs/GaAs HBTs
Ritwik Chatterjee

Simulation Tool for IOA Language
Anna E. Chefter

A/D Converters for CMOS Imagers
Susan Dacy

Development of Calibration Standards for Accurate Measurement of Geometry in Microelectromechanical Systems
Erik R. Deutsch

Formal Verification of Safety of Automated Vehicle Maneuvers
Ekaterina Dolginova

Automatic Grammar Induction from Semantic Parsing
Debajit Ghosh

Point Sample Rendering
J. P. Grossman

An Improved Lost-Packet Recovery Technique for the ITU-T G.723.1 Speech Coding System
Grant Ho

Propagation Properties of Duobinary Transmission in Optical Fibers
Leaf Jiang

Packet Delay and Sequence Number Space in the Radio Link Protocol Layer
Euree Y. Kim

Capacitive Position-Sensing System and Electronics for a Linear Electrostatic Micromotor
Lily Y. Kim

Using Multiresolution Range-Profiled Real Imagery in a Statistical Object Recognition System
Asuman E. Koksal

Impacts of Coherent Crosstalk on the Performance and Scalability of WDM AONs
Can Emre Koksal

Probabilistic Segmentation for Segment-Based Speech Recognition
Steven C. Lee

Consistent Hashing and Random Trees: Algorithms for Caching in Distributed Networks
Daniel Lewin

A Parallel Precorrected FFT Based Capacitance Extraction Program for Signal Integrity Analysis
Vivek Nadkarni

Recognizing Intonational Patterns in English Speech
Erin Marie Panttaja

Framework for Characterization of Copper Interconnect in Damascene CMP Processes
Tae H. Park

The NetLog: An Efficient, Highly Available Stable Storage Abstraction
Arvind Parthasarathi

Non-Perfluorocompound Chemistries for Dielectric Etching Applications
Laura C. Pruette

Low-Power Row and Column Drivers for Flat Panel FED Displays
Ameet Ranadive

All-Optical Switching Using Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers Biased at Transparency
Bryan S. Robinson

Analysis and Detection of Jamming Attacks in All-Optical Networks
Poompat Saengudomlert

Barriers to Growth of the Hong Kong Software Industry
Jacob Seid

Push-Based Web Filtering Using PICS Profiles
David Shapiro

Diffusion of Network Innovation: Implications for Adoption of Internet Services
Marc Shuster

Debuggging Multithreaded Programs that Incorporate User-Level Locking
Andrew F. Stark

Evaluation of Compartmentalization as an Explanation of Discrepancies Calculating Fixed Charge Density in Cartilage
Arun Thomas

Generating Threads for Programs Written in Non-strict Functional Languages
Christiana V. Toutet

A Single Supply Wide Bandwidth 4:1 Video Multiplexer in an 8 GHz Dieletrically Isolated Complementary Bipolar Process
Shan J. Wang

Natural-Sounding Speech Synthesis Using Variable-Length Units
Jon Yi